Being able to to tag notes and use markdown makes this one of my required apps.

The Verge

Welcome to First Click, a daily essay written by The Verge staff in which we opine on lives lived in the near future. As of this week, after the better part of a decade, I'm no longer an Evernote user.

The Next Web

I'm in love with a note-taking app for the first time since Evernote wowed me almost a decade ago. 'Bear' is what Notes should have been. Hell, it might be what Notes still aspires to be. It walks the perfect line between simple and feature-rich while offering robust options for organization, search, and - I ...

A set of tools to inspire creative writing

A modern cloud workspace for fiction writing & worldbuilding

Shaxpir is a desktop writing app for Windows and Mac with templates for writing books (fiction and non-fiction), articles, and short stories.
Every novel you write in Shaxpir has its own notebook, where you can flesh out the characters, places, and themes of your story. You can create cross-references between notes to keep track of character relationships, …See more